Critical Contrast: Contineum Therapeutics (CTNM) and Its Rivals

Contineum Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CTNM) is one of 1,075 public companies in the “Pharmaceutical preparations” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Contineum Therapeutics to related companies based on the strength of its risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

44.0% of shares of all “Pharmaceutical preparations” companies are held by institutional investors. 13.6% of shares of all “Pharmaceutical preparations” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Contineum Therapeutics and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Contineum Therapeutics	0	0	5	1	3.17
Contineum Therapeutics Competitors	8516	22423	50632	1367	2.54

Contineum Therapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $24.80, suggesting a potential upside of 423.21%. As a group, “Pharmaceutical preparations” companies have a potential upside of 222.59%. Given Contineum Therapeutics’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Contineum Therapeutics is more favorable than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares Contineum Therapeutics and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Contineum Therapeutics	N/A	-49.92%	-20.52%
Contineum Therapeutics Competitors	-3,399.87%	-235.11%	-32.77%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Contineum Therapeutics and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Contineum Therapeutics	$50.00 million	$22.72 million	-0.97
Contineum Therapeutics Competitors	$9.90 billion	$136.37 million	-5.92

Contineum Therapeutics’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Contineum Therapeutics. Contineum Therapeutics is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Contineum Therapeutics beats its competitors on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

Contineum Therapeutics Company Profile

Contineum Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering and developing novel oral small molecule therapies for neuroscience, inflammation, and immunology indications with high unmet need. Its lead asset is PIPE-791, a novel, brain penetrant, small molecule inhibitor of the lysophosphatidic acid 1 receptor (LPA1R) for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and progressive multiple sclerosis (MS). The company also develops PIPE-307, a novel, small molecule selective inhibitor of the muscarinic type 1 M1 receptor to treat depression and relapse remitting MS; and CTX-343, a peripherally-restricted LPA1R antagonist. Contineum Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Pipeline Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Contineum Therapeutics, Inc. in November 2023. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.